1936.68: Verdure with Birds
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.68
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Verdure with Birds
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- tapestry
- Date
- first quarter 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, France, Lille
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214780
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Textile fibers
- Dimensions
- 317.5 x 645.2 cm (125 x 254 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Bernheimer-Haus, Munich], sold; to Charles A. Coolidge, 1911, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Coolidge, Esq., Class of 1881
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.68
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Centrally woven with peacocks, parrots and cranes before a classical landscape. In subject and period, it relates to the Fogg's two Aubusson 'chinoiserie' tapestries (1960.3, 1953.113), but here, despite the exotic birds, the landscape and architecture are distinctly European. This tapestry was most likely manufactured in Lille, a city with a distinguished tradition of high-warp manufacture. Many of the important weavers who resided there were of Flemish origin, which explains the stylistic similarities between this tapestry and Flemish verdures. The borders are simulated gold frames with scallop shell ornamentation at the corners.
Publication History
- "Cambridge: Late Flemish Tapestry for Fogg.", Art News (January 9, 1937), p. 22
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